Doris Kearns Goodwin

Known for ActingBorn 1943-01-04 (age 83)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.Read more

Movies & web series

The Obama Years: The Power of Words

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

American Horror Story

Abraham Lincoln

The Simpsons

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Spielberg

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Kevin Costner's The West

Baseball

Washington

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Colbert Report

Lincoln

FDR

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

CNN Special Report

The Daily Show

American Experience

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Meet the Press

Presidents In Crisis

JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala

Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s